The Syrian conflict may be confusing, but we're here to explain the basics. Aug. 31, 2013 -- intro: As the United States moves closer to a possible military strike on Syria, an already complicated ...

Fleeing a civil war, Syria's refugees have nearly doubled in the past year. — -- The number of Syrians fleeing their war-torn homeland for neighboring countries has passed the 4 million mark, ...

Syria is potentially “weeks” away from collapse, even though the U.S. recently eased longstanding sanctions on the Middle Eastern nation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday. The ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday that Syria may be weeks away from plunging into another civil war or collapsing altogether. Rubio, who met with top Syrian officials last week ...

Since al-Assad’s overthrow, Syria has seen several instances of sectarian violence. In March, violence broke out in coastal ...

In December, a band of rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham shocked the world by ousting Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. HTS’s leader, Ahmed al-Shara, created a government to oversee the ...

LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will lift long-standing sanctions on Syria that severed the country from the global financial system under toppled former President Bashar ...

As global conflicts continue to test the limits of humanitarian response, a recent campus event turned attention to how international aid can influence the course of war and the people caught within ...

Aziz Habesh knows his way around kibbeh. Sitting in Vezir Han, in the shadow of Istanbul’s Fatih Mosque, the maitre d’ begins to list the types on offer at the Syrian restaurant. He starts counting on ...

Samira Selo cradled her 2-year-old on her hip and looked across the low valley toward Syria, a country that until a month ago she called home. Some sheep and goats grazed nearby. Behind her, in the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria – Rebuilding Syria after over a decade of civil war is expected to cost about $216 billion, the World Bank said in an assessment published Tuesday. The cost is almost ten times Syria’s ...